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Pop. estimate says 625 wolves, down 4%-
Montana wildlife officials plan to reduce the size of the state’s recovered wolf population was successful in 2012. The “count” is public, and the estimate is a minimum of 625 wolves arranged into 147 wolf packs. Among the packs were 37 breeding pairs as of the end of 2012. [...]
Continue Reading →Hard information about wolves or anything else does not come from rants-
Discussion of politics and many other things, including wildlife, seems to have broken down. Instead of discussion, people yell. Instead of facts they tell stories (anecdotes) and cite folklore, urban myths and rural conspiracy theories.
A number soldier on though, citing scientific evidence [...]
Continue Reading →Two cougar, a coyote and a bobcat caught in wolf traps-
Whether this is a lot of “by-catch” or not depends on a person’s viewpoint, but some felines and one coyote have been caught in wolf traps so far in the Montana wolf trapping season. An additional cougar was caught in a “furbearer” trap (must [...]
Continue Reading →Wolfwatcher wants old wolf hunting sub-units from Montana 2011 hunt reestablished-
Yellowstone Park’s response to dead Park wolves is blasé-
Controversy over the seven dead Yellowstone Park wolves killed in the Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming hunting seasons continues. None of the Park wolves were actually killed inside the Park. This would be illegal, but [...]
Continue Reading →Supposedly protected Yellowstone Park wolves were slaughtered in Montana and Wyoming state wolf hunts.
We predicted would happen. The Wildlife News, along with hundreds of other people, predicted that the Montana and Wyoming wolf hunts would end up killing many wolves that [...]
Continue Reading →Republican Hill sees wildlife in terms of hunting; Democrat Bullock takes a more expansive view of the value of wildlife-
The view of governors on wildlife makes a big difference because wildlife management is the province of the states except for endangered species and some marine mammals.
Montana’s Democrat and current attorney general Steve Bullock [...]
Continue Reading →Six of America’s symbolic bird and four wolves fall to poison in vicinity of the Big Prairie Ranger Station-
Last May six bald eagles and four wolves were found dead in the general area of the Big Prairie Ranger Station inside the Bob Marshall Wilderness of NW Montana. This is far up the South Fork [...]
Continue Reading →Understanding Montana’s Wolf Policy Decision
George Wuerthner
On July 12, 2012, the Montana Department of Fish, Wildlife and Parks (MDFWP) Commissioners voted 4-0 to increase wolf hunting in the state, expanding the hunting season and permitting the trapping of wolves for the first time as well. The goal is to reduce wolf numbers across the [...]
Continue Reading →Proposed new hunting rules would allow unlimited wolf killing right up to YNP boundary-
Public comment could change this-
Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks doesn’t think they killed enough wolves in the last hunt. As a result they are proposing hunting rules like Idaho had last year and more — no quotas, electronic [...]
Continue Reading →There might be an unusual amount of wolf/mountain lion conflict along the Idaho-Montana border-
Liz Bradley, a wolf manager for Montana Fish, Wildlife and Parks has found an unusually high number of wolves killed by cougar in the Bitterroot Mountains near the Montana-Idaho border from Lolo on the north to near the Idaho border on [...]
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